Improvement



UNITED kSrn'rEs PATENT EEICE.

WILLIAM H. HART, JR., OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN NECK-TIE SHIELDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,935, dated February Q4, 1874; application filed May 26, 1873.

' in which the figures are views illustrative of my invention, which consists in so forming or cutting the shields from the blank that while there may be sideclippings there is no actual loss in the length of the blank, and thus the full number of shields are produced without fragmentary pieces in such length.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a` blank or piece of properly-prepared board for the manufacture of shields or supporters for neck-ties, which have become an extensive article of manufacture. These shields are shown at S, and are made t0 conform nicely to the portions of the neck or collar to which they are applied, and present light and graceful appearance. This blank or strip A is of the exact width of the shield to be made, and in length equal to a certain number of shields when laid together, as in Fig. 2. In cutting the shields from the blank, I employ a knife of such form that the bottom edge or line B B of the shield coincides with the top edge or line C C thereof, so that when the knife cuts the line C C, which is the top of one shield,

it, at the same time, cuts the line B B, which will be the bottom of the adjacent shield, the cut thus being common to both lines. The blank is then advanced and another cut made, and so on throughout, until the entire strip or blank is eXpen ded, and it will be seen that the blank A, which, for example, is equal in length to the space between the points a a, will cut four perfect shields, and the only waste is the clippings b b c, shown in dotted lines, but this occurs without in any wise interfering with the production of the perfect shields, since, by my invention, not more than the number of shields stated can be produced between the points a a, the waste being thus immaterial.

The coincident lines B B C C maybe curved or angular, but the result will be the same in either case.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, andv desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A neck tie shield, having its upper and lower edges B B C G coincident, as and for the purpose herein set forth.

The above signed by me this 9th day of May, 1873.

wn. H. HAEr, JR.'

INitn esses HENRY PoLsZ, JonN A. WIEDERSHEIM. 

